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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm probably not going to pay $10 a year with additional fees to have my music on a website unless a lot of people are already using it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

this is fine until you need autotools which is worse than cmake

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I understand that this is a big loss for the emulation community, but as someone who did a bit of romhacking during COVID, I found their moderation to be terrible and arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's still mostly red hat even for arm, though Cray (who still supply a lot of machines here in the UK) ship a horribly butchered version of SLES

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

typeset my thesis using latex, biber and zotero. Very painless, the only slightly painful part was configuring the character encoding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

updating packages in kde neon is like playing russian roulette, it's worse than pop os in my experience

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

as an occasional creator of internet videos,I would much rather host my own videos, because bandwidth is actually very cheap. but YouTube has a complete monopoly on internet video, so I have to host my video on their website, subject to their weird and arbitrary conditions, their trigger happy copyright system, and their general terrible treatment of their creators. they pay an absolute pittance for impressions, which is why most professional YouTubers use other revenue streams

the company, Google, that you are paying, didn't make the videos, doesn't fairly compensate the people who did, and they are effectively holding them and the very concept of internet video hostage

people on Lemmy mostly support a free, non-corpo, decentralised internet instead of the parasites at Google because Lemmy is free and decentralised and non corporate

get real

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs

but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it's a soulless corporate husk of what it one was

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

pointers are fine, but when you learn about the preprocessor and templates and 75% of the STL it goes negative again

c++ templates are such a busted implementation of generics that if I didn't have context I'd assume they were bad on purpose like malbolge

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a more genuine take would have included a series of scenarios (e.g. drunk/distracted/tired driving)

I agree. they did tesla dirty. a more fair comparison would've been between autopilot and a driver who was fully asleep. or maybe a driver who was dead?

and why didn't this news article contain a full scientific meta analysis of all self driving cars??? personally, when someone tells me that my car has an obvious fault, I ask them to produce detailed statistics on the failure rates of every comparable car model

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

the biggest causes of bsods and other crashes on windows up to xp were drivers. after xp, Microsoft required drivers for windows to go through their signing and verification program, which was controversial but it did solve the problem

modern windows rarely crashes outright but in my experience it does break in small ways over time, without the user doing anything

in terms of disabling windows components, it's true that this can break your system, but I would argue this is still Microsoft's problem. there are many windows competents that are deeply coupled together when they have no reason to be

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

if I wanted access to a constant stream of confidently-stated misinformation I would simply open Reddit

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